The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus has asked state police to launch an investigation of a Georgia Republican who warned his Democratic former colleague she could “go missing in the Okefenokee” over her calls to tear down Civil War monuments.

The shocking amount of killings of young Black people in Brazil revealed in a new report shows that Black lives don’t matter in the South American country.
The crisis of fatal violence against Afro-descendents in Brazil that sees one Black youth killed every 23 minutes in what some have called an “undeclared civil war,” according to a new Senate committee report announced on Monday, is leading experts to raise alarm over a “genocide” suffered by young Black people in the South American country.

Democrats can never win in America, without the Black vote, and a progressive platform.

Trump and the Republicans are winning with poll numbers in the thirties, and the Democratic leadership has no strategy to change the trajectory of this administration. The Republicans control the House, the Senate and the Executive Branch, and there appears nothing the Democrats can do.

The Democrats can filibuster, resist, and obstruct the Republicans policies, but when it is time for a vote, the Republicans win. In the House they win by 24 votes, and in the Senate they win by 2 votes.

”At worst, it really is part of a systematic agenda to roll back civil rights.”

This story originally appeared onProPublica.For decades, the Department of Justice has used court-enforced agreements to protect civil rights, successfully desegregating school systems, reforming police departments, ensuring access for the disabled and defending the religious.

Donald Trump just gave Putin a huge gift—and no one seems to have noticed.

Those were the only four Englishwords Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last Friday, reacting to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement the day before.